WRITER

Johann Peter Hebel

1760 - 1826

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Johann Peter Hebel (10 May 1760 – 22 September 1826) was a German short story writer, dialectal poet, Lutheran theologian and pedagogue, most famous for a collection of Alemannic lyric poems (Allemannische Gedichte) and one of German tales (Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes – "Treasure Chest of Rhenish Tales"). Born in Basel, Hebel entered primary school in 1766 and joined a Latin school three years later; he visited the schools in Basel during summer and in Hausen and Schopfheim respectively in the nearby Wiesental during winter. After the death of his mother in 1773, he remained at school, graduating with the help of friends from the Gymnasium illustre of Karlsruhe in 1778 and going on to study theology. He became a home tutor, an assistant preacher, an assistant teacher, a subdeacon and, in 1798, a professor and court deacon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Peter Hebel is the 2,324th most popular writer (up from 2,440th in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 250th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swiss Writer.

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Among writers, Johann Peter Hebel ranks 2,324 out of 7,302. Before him are August Derleth, Li Yu, Berthold Auerbach, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, Sakya Pandita, and Andrey Kurbsky. After him are Cornell Woolrich, Bella Rosenfeld, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Wieland Wagner, Suman Pokhrel, and Aharon Appelfeld.

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Among people born in 1760, Johann Peter Hebel ranks 22. Before him are Jan Ladislav Dussek, Jean-François Le Sueur, John Breckinridge, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Aloysia Weber, and Olof Swartz. After him are Christian Kramp, Constantine Ypsilantis, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, Georg Franz Hoffmann, and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth. Among people deceased in 1826, Johann Peter Hebel ranks 28. Before him are Clarke Abel, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, John Farey Sr., Shaykh Ahmad, Conrad Malte-Brun, and François-Joseph Talma. After him are Christian Kramp, Friedrich Krupp, John Flaxman, Claire Lacombe, Anton Walter, and Jean Lafitte.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Johann Peter Hebel ranks 248 out of 1,015. Before him are François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Stan Wawrinka (1985), Ubol Ratana (1951), Denis de Rougemont (1906), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), and Paul Wild (1925). After him are Rudolf Wolf (1816), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Ludwig Senfl (1486), Alfred Escher (1819), and Heinrich Glarean (1488).

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Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Johann Peter Hebel ranks 25. Before him are Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698), Notker the Stammerer (840), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Jean Starobinski (1920), Jeremias Gotthelf (1797), and Emma Jung (1882). After him are Heinrich Glarean (1488), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Alphonse Matejka (1902), Peter Bichsel (1935), Peter Bieri (1944), and Fleur Jaeggy (1940).

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